2019 Fall SUNY First Peoples

Final Blog: Wilma Mankiller The video Wilma Mankiller: Challenges of 21 st Century Indigenous Peoples” held by the American Indian Studies Library in 2008 was extremely interesting.   She points out the history of the plight of Indigenous Peoples here in American and branches it to all Indigenous Peoples throughout the world.   She pointed out that not only have Native Americans suffered, but other indigenous peoples also have suffered and continue to suffer.   Land grabs by the government, loss of traditional ways, loss of culture and native language.   In the talk she mentions the indigenous peoples of the Brazilian Rainforest and in her communication with them she relays a story of the people   discussing how they used to see famous musicians that would wear t shirts that say “Save the Rainforest” but never did they see a t shirt that conveyed the same message about the people.          ...

Module 3 blogging has ended. Thanks, Nn

M3 Academic Blog I reviewed the following web resources. Tribal Consultation with the Federal Government and Tribal Courts of New York and supplemented this with The Legal Framework of Sovereignty by Peter d’Errico. These web resources document the dealings of Indian Tribes with both the federal governments concerning the rights of sovereignty and jurisdiction of authority.   From Peter d’Errico’s paper we find that “sovereignty is classically defined as supreme legal authority,” but this is not the way it has been applied to the sovereign Indian nations of North America.   Sovereignty is a fluid term that is open to interpretation in the case of tracing “supreme authority to the people or to a “divine right” of rulers.”   The early European colonizers chose to define sovereignty using divine right based on “theological-legal theory.”   The Pope decreed land titles “for purposes of Christian civilization.”   This left the Native tribes with no autho...

For this blog post, I decided to review the Tribal Courts of New York website  http://www.nyfedstatetribalcourtsforum.org/about.shtml . I think that this is a credible source because there are constant conflicts between Indian Nations and governments on the federal and state levels. The idea sprung from the need to understand the rule of law amongst various Indian Tribes.  In 2003, people from all of New York State's recognized Indian Tribes and Nations came together to voice their interest in developing a federal-state-tribal court system. After several meetings in the coming months, the tribal court system became a reality. The mission statement of the New York Federal-State Tribal Court system reads: 1. To develop Educational programs for Judges and Tribal Chiefs and Indian communities; 2.  To exchange information amongst Tribes and Nations and agencies; 3. To coordinate the integration of ICWA training for childcare professionals, attorneys, judges, and law guardi...

Assimilation Through Education: Indian Boarding Schools in the Pacific Northwest             The source I reviewed for Mod 3 is called Assimilation Through Education: Indian Boarding Schools in the Pacific Northwest by Carolyn J. Marr. I find this source credible because it is the University of Washington Library. During the 1880's to the 1920's, the goal of Indian education was to assimilate Indian people into white Americans. This was done by placing Indians into institutions that were intended to replace their traditions with ones sanctioned by the government. Federal Indian policy allowed the removal of Indian children from their families. These children were enrolled in a government run boarding school. Policy makers believed that young people would be engaged in the values and knowledge of what was considered a dominant American society. All the while the Indian children were being kept away from any inspirations ...

This week I’m highlighting the National Museum of the American Indian. This museum is located in Battery Park, New York City. Here you will find information involving the indigenous people of America pre and post European contact, as well as the history and culture and the impact they made in the western civilization. Clothing was important in many natives tribes. They used skin and fur of animals hunted to design their clothing and other household needs. Intricate details went into each preparation. They tell a story.  For many tribes, the men kill the animal and the women prepared the clothing. The museum displays many tribes and their environment. Many tribes located in different regions in search of resources.  Tribes of the plains, Lakota, Cheyenne, Ojibwe, Arapaho, traveled to the Plains because there was an abundance of Buffalos.  Tribes in the Arctic Circle, The Inuit, Yupik, and Aleut, migrated to Alaska and Canada for fishing and hunting of pol...